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Quotes About Expectation

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
~ Fannie Hurst
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.
~ Frank Warren
I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.
~ Frederick Lenz
In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All waits silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will happen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In real life, comedians aren't funny.
~ Michael Showalter
My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.
~ Molly Ringwald
Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?
~ Nicholas Sparks
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.
~ Nicholson Baker
Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.
~ Paulo Coelho
To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.
~ Paulo Coelho
People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.
~ Paulo Coelho
Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.
~ Peter O'Toole
They live ill who expect to live always.
~ Publilius Syrus
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
~ Rahul Dravid
That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
~ Rita Dove
I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.
~ Roberto Cavalli
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
~ Sam Abell
Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.
~ Samuel Johnson
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
~ Samuel Johnson